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WELCOME TO THE FREE SPEECH FILM FESTIVAL!
2024 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
ICELAND, On the Trail of Democracy
2024 Free Speech Award Official Selections
Sermersuaq is a powerful documentary that offers an intimate perspective on climate change in the Arctic. It follows the stories of Michael, a hunter from Qaanaaq, the northernmost town of Greenland, and Marc, a scientist on a quest for truth. Different origins, same common purpose: preserving Sermersuaq, Greenland's great ice sheet
15 min | 2024 | Greenland, Italy
GREENLAND | SERMERSUAQ-the great ice-
Fearlessly challenging constraints on free expression in India, the documentary calls for the defence of free speech amidst censorship and violence. Against the backdrop of Hindu hegemony, it serves as a tribute to the transformative power of safeguarding fundamental rights.
58 min | 2024 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom
INDIA | Offenders
Are we responsible for our destiny? Do we have the ability to change the circumstances of our lives? The students of a Girls High school have lived the answers to these questions.
96 min | 2024 | Iran, Islamic Republic of
IRAN | From the Cradle to the Grave
A couple (Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan) have decided to cross the border because of the war in their land. The woman is pregnant. They have difficult and impassable roads ahead of them.
15 min | 2023 | Iran, Islamic Republic of
IRAN | The Borders Never Die
Climate change, school shootings, racial tensions, and devastating wars are just some of the issues Gen Z will soon inherit. "The Future is Ours" is a 35-minute documentary featuring Gen Z journalists from across the country engaged in challenging conversations we all need to hear and have. Many are eligible to vote for the first time in the next election.
35 min | 2024 | United States
USA | The Future is Ours
2023 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
USA | Ellos Gritan Libertad (They Scream Freedom)
2023 Free Speech Award Official Selections
97 min | 2022 | Mongolia
MONGOLIA | Trio
78 min | 2021 | Afghanistan
United Kingdom | With This Breath I Fly
17 min | 2021 | United States
USA | My Mother's Voice
30 min | 2022 | United States
USA | We Live
110 min | 2020 | United States
USA | Women of War: Invisible
2022 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
USA | Jazz in China
2022 Free Speech Film Festival Official Selections
In China like everywhere, a woman's place in society is linked to politics and tradition. But China's politics and tradition make a unique setting on earth. It's within this context that Lulu emerges.
50 min | 2021 | France
FRANCE | Chinese Cancan - Lulu, a Chinese Woman
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
9 min | 2021
TAIWAN | My Grandmother Is an Egg
In an age of hyperpolarization, the UVA Center for Politics documentary "Common Grounds?" examines the political climate on a college campus, at the Grounds of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Through interviews with students from across the political spectrum, and a group dialogue between some of these students, the film asks a simple question: "Can tomorrow's generation find common ground?"
29 min | United States
USA | Common Grounds?
After witnessing human rights abuses at a detention center for undocumented immigrant children, an idealistic young reporter — already traumatized by what she has seen — is subjected to an onslaught of death threats. Pushed to the brink of a breakdown and petrified to the point where she can no longer do her job, she turns to an old friend for help.
22 min | 2021
USA | Urania Leilus
The story of four refugee women who stand on their own feet despite their families' pain and difficulty.
23 min | 2020
TURKEY | Strength Among Us
2021 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
UNITED KINGDOM | Footsteps on the Wind
2021 Free Speech Film Festival Official Selections
Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia of all time – by looking at the inner life of Wikipedia, the documentary deals with issues of perspective, representation and Western-centrism.
52 min | 2021 | Germany
GERMANY | The Wikipedia Promise
The film follows the less-known aspects of the lives of four “web stars” – Israeli YouTubers: Moti Taka, one of the busiest singers in Israel today, who visits Ethiopia for the first time with his mother Dalia.
57 min | 2019 | Israel
ISRAEL | In Your Eyes
The brothers Jano and Shiro are inseparable. When war breaks out in Syria, they flee together in search of a better life for themselves and their family.
35 min | 2020 | Netherlands
NETHERLANDS | Jano & Shiro, a Brothers' Journey
Days Before the Dawn is a documentary about the history of dissent in Hong Kong. Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997 without ever consulting the people of Hong Kong.
34 min | 2020 | United States
USA | Days Before the Dawn
Deep Breath is an Anti-racist, Art-as-Activism Film Project centered around an epic, 8-minute poem by Dr. Nia Nunn. Deep Breath brought diverse dancers together to feel her words, and dance to custom-composed music.
9 min | 2021 | United States
USA | Deep Breath
2020 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
USA | Boxed
2020 Free Speech Award Official Selections
Sweet Poison (Doce Veneno) is a documentary film that elucidates the consequences of pesticide usage in Northeast Brazil. Limoeiro Do Norte is a city of 60,000 where the repercussions of pesticide poisoning have devastated communities. From a contaminated water supply and to high incidents of birth defects, disability and terminal illness, the inhabitants of this city have been intimately affected by their exposure to pesticides. While farm workers are still preparing and spraying pesticides without access to proper protection, one person is dying of cancer every nine days. When local activist Zé Maria revealed the harmful impacts of pesticides to the media, he was murdered for speaking out. Farm workers in Limoeiro have collaborated to organize and advocate, and have won historic legislation to protect their communities. This documentary shares their story to spread the movement in hopes of creating the momentum for authentic change.
16 min | 2020 | Brazil
BRAZIL | Sweet Poison
In 2018, photographer Tim Franco began shooting a series of large format portraits of North Korean defectors using an unusual technique for a book detailing some of their experiences.
2020
UNITED KINGDOM | Reclaiming The Negative
ACTIVIZED profiles a handful of ordinary Americans who -- for the first time in their lives -- have left their comfort zones and thrown themselves into a political cause. We follow their motivations, their goals, successes and failures, and how and why such activists are the embodiment of positive citizen participation in the best American traditions - dissent.
2019 | United States
UNITED STATES | Activized
Modos de Expresión, (Means of Expression) is a film that explores illegal public art in Cuba through the eyes of street artist Yulier P.
21 min | 2020 | United States
UNITED STATES | Means of Expression
It’s no secret that special interests bankroll campaigns and relentlessly lobby to rig the system in their favor. Unrepresented pulls back the curtain to investigate the mechanisms that propel Congress's corruption cycle- giving political insiders enormous, unchecked power. Democratic and Republican party leaders alike encourage us to believe that the political divide is wider than ever. In reality, the vast majority of Americans agree on basic reforms to outlaw the wanton political corruption from both parties, but politicians won't pass them. Unrepresented reveals the opportunities and challenges as committed public servants, non-partisan activists, and everyday Americans build unprecedented movements to fix the broken system before it's too late.
61 min | 2019 | United States
UNITED STATES | Unrepresented